This glossary contains a variety of terms that can be popular for the psychology world. All of these words are related to the brain and his components.
Anxiety
Noun
Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at one time or another, for instance, when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making a big decision.
Example: Before we even see the horse we hear a war-cry and the music becomes much tenser reflecting Crowe's anxiety for the upcoming battle.
fr: Anxiété
Behavior
Noun
The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.
Example: If any of these variables affects helping behavior, then the degrees of helpfulness can also vary widely depending on the region where the experiment is conducted.
fr: Comportement
Bipolar disorder
Noun
Bipolar disorder is described as a group of conditions characterized by alternating episodes of mania and depression.
Example: Thus, the Soviet Union and the western powers gradually maneuvered into a bipolar power structure.
fr: Trouble bipolaire
Cognitive
Adjective
Cognitive skills and knowledge involve the ability to acquire factual information, often the kind of knowledge that can easily be tested.
Example: Kant's next suggestion is that if space and time are real we are required to accept that "our cognitive powers are capable of knowing two infinite and yet non-substantial things" (Gardner, 1999 .102) and that space and time "must continue to exist, even although all existing things be removed.".
fr: Cognitive
Conscious
Noun
Having knowledge of something; aware.
Example: In reference to the plant manufacturing budget evaluation, it is explained that plant managers maybe de-motivated to be cost conscious.
Hence, it is thought that kaizen costing to a certain extent may motivate the plant managers and workforce to be highly cost conscious since they are now together responsible for generating ideas and have authority to make small-scale investments (if demonstrated to have cost reductions).
fr: Conscient
Depression
Noun
Depression is a medical illness which affects the brain which in turn affects the rest of the body.
Example: In addition, the conditions associated with obesity is: Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Osteoarthritis, Gallstones, Lipid disorders, High blood pressure, Respiratory problems, depression and Social discrimination.
fr: Dépression
Emotion
Noun
A conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.
Example: One of the needs incorporated in his thinking is the will to work hard just like any other natural human feeling or emotion.
fr: Émotion
Empathy
Noun
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Example: Wilde also uses external influences for a literary purpose- to heighten the demise of Dorian Gray, and also to create a sense of empathy with the character.
fr: empathie
Fear
An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
Example: A group such as Gower SOS can appeal to a diverse audience; people who rely on Welsh tourism, those who use the Gower such as fishermen and surfers, environmentalists who fear for birds and other habitats, and those who merely appreciate the beauty of the Welsh Gower.
fr: Craindre
Field
Noun
An area of land marked by the presence of particular objects or features dune fields.
Example: The Seventeenth century represented the largest leap forward in this field, since its origins in the writings of Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle.
fr: Domaine
Frustration
Noun
In psychology, frustration is a common emotional response to opposition, related to anger, annoyance and disappointment.
Example: It is difficult to keep spinning stories off the top of their head and sometimes the frustration of having to be one step ahead could result in them losing their temper.
fr: Frustration
Happiness
Noun
The state of being happy.
Example: It is thought provoking, even for the modern readers that he concludes with: "what good is it to seek our happiness in someone else's opinion if we can find it within ourselves.".
fr: Joie
Insight
Noun
The capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.
Example: However, through these difficulties a great deal of insight into the development of ASP-based web applications has been gained, including the differences between the Classic ASP used here and Microsoft's current product, ASP.NET.
fr: Aperçu
Intuition
Noun
Intuitive thinking means going with one's first instinct and reaching decisions quickly based on automatic cognitive processes.
Example: Commonly referred to as evidence-based practice (EBP), this has in recent years gained greater emphasis as professional practice moves away from relying solely on personal experience, clinical intuition and traditional practices and procedures (Sim and Wright 2000:5).
fr: Intuition
Memory
Noun
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.
Example: There were still obvious memory problems although she was able to retrieve memories with maximum prompts.
fr: Mémoire
Psychologist
Noun
A person who specializes in the study of mind and behavior or in the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychology.
Example: Febvre was very much taken by the ideas of the psychologist Charles Blondel, while Bloch preferred the ideas of the sociologist Maurice Halbrachs.
fr: Psychologue
Psychology
Noun
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: Geoffrey Chaucer reflects this new psychology for a more temporal life in his Canterbury Tales, choosing to barely mention any pestilence and focus instead upon the pleasures of life and comic anecdotes.
fr: Psychologie
Social
Noun
Living and breeding in more or less organized communities especially for the purposes of cooperation and mutual benefit.
Example: The Byker estate in Newcastle is a planned social housing development built in the 70's as part of a slum clearance project.
fr: Social
Therapy
Noun
Treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder.
Example: However, the believability of Gillies claims is reduced by the biological explanations for "the physical, behavioural and physiological dependence of nicotine" (see Benowitz, 1996; Pangal. 2003) and effectiveness of "nicotine replacement therapy" in easing "these dependencies" (Benowitz, 1993).
fr: Thérapie
Unconscious
Adjective
The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behavior and emotions.
Example: This society receives a frequently bad press, in light of their unconscious customs and modes of classification which clearly lie incongruent to the strong beliefs of cleanliness of those offended.
